Die kleinen Durchbrüche im Leben

Hello, fellow champagne lovers, 

When you start a new project, every step makes a huge difference: everything is new, everything is surprising. Everyone you meet wishes you the best of luck and success; everyone encourages you. Everyone is curious to see what happens next. 

This makes what you’re doing feel incredibly meaningful and vibrant; life takes on a very concrete direction. 

If it’s a really good idea, you stick with it and it turns into something significant. You put a lot of work into it. Eventually, hopefully, you reach a point where the system you’ve built works really well. 

And that’s exactly the point where the longing for those big breakthroughs reawakens, just like at the beginning. You ask yourself: when is that really big breakthrough coming? In doing so, you overlook the many thousands of small details that are going really well every day, things that would have seemed impossible at the beginning. 

But that has now become the new normal. Further progress toward your own vision is then a lot more arduous: the steps are smaller and the progress less visible. Fewer people are cheering us on from the sidelines. And yet, to achieve that major breakthrough (whatever form it may take), it is necessary to keep doing the same, often unsatisfying things over and over again. Step by step, a tiny bit of progress every day, until one day the tipping point is reached.

Many books have been written on this topic, such as *Atomic Habits*. Personally, though, I find it difficult because I’m not the type for constant repetition :) I suppose everyone has to find their own way. 

Over the years, I also became unsure of what a “breakthrough” might actually look like. After all, in business, it could mean losing the freedom to pursue your own vision. 

That’s why I’ve since calibrated my own compass, my North Star. Its goal is to live as authentically as possible and to follow my own values, even if it would be easier to veer off course now and then (and follow what my surroundings suggest is desirable, etc.). 

The reward is then the many, very small moments that only arise when you don’t follow a set script. That’s when coincidences and creative encounters happen, where you feel: here we are on our own path, and it feels good.

Crazy enough, you can still be really successful with it! 

Although we don’t go around making a big fuss to impress winemakers we’d like to work with, they sense that we have serious intentions. That we want to make a difference with our work. 

Time and again, we taste wines at a winery we really like, express our appreciation, and then suddenly, after hundreds of tiny steps which can sometimes take 10 years or longer suddenly after hundreds of small, the tipping point is reached, and we get to welcome a new member to our Champagne Characters universe. 

We extend a very warm welcome to:

Champagne Pascal Doquet!! 

We are thrilled to be working with your champagnes and look forward to the years ahead together. And to everyone who sees themselves on the verge of small and big breakthroughs in life, we wish you all the courage to recalibrate your own compass and many magical moments in the new year! 

Your ChaCha Family, Nicola and the Team